Chapter 103: Make amends
Zhang's mother smiled clearly, "Yes, the slave doesn't say that she wishes her mother a little family, and she is also very careful about herself, such a person, it is okay to be an ordinary housekeeper, and if you want to be in charge, I am afraid that it will not be possible at all." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
"You said that the eldest grandmother wants to put her family in Shirong County to serve the uncle, and the slave is really a little worried."
"The days are still long, look at it, Shirong County is lively and see." Hu Qinghui smiled, "My sister-in-law's tutoring since she was a child is still good, but her temperament is too soft, and my mother is too protective of her, but I don't know if it hurt her." ”
"It's so easy to come out this time, and she has to go through more wind and rain and make some changes."
Zhang's mother nodded thoughtfully, but then sighed lightly, "Alas, other people's families are big and take care of the small, but our family is good, but it's the other way around." ”
"How much more effort does it take you to rely on the ground."
"My eldest brother is good to me, my nephews and nieces are close to me, for their good life in the future, what is the bother?" Hu Qinghui took Zhang's mother's hand and trusted her sincerely, "Even if I am always weak alone, I have to ask my mother to take care of it." ”
Hu Qinghui's maternal ancestor Yun family is one of the four major families in the south of the Yangtze River, and Mrs. Yun is very concerned about her granddaughter, and gave her most trusted mother Zhang to Hu Qinghui.
Zhang's mother's strength is not inferior to Da Liu's mother and Hu's mother, but her master is not married yet, so her space is limited.
However, Hu Qinghui attaches great importance to feelings, and takes special care of them, the people around Mrs. Yun, and after a long time, the feelings will naturally be deep.
Mother Zhang listened to her young lady lower her body and ask for help in such a soft voice, her heart was soft, and she said to Hu Qinghui in a soft voice, "Before leaving Beijing, the slave maid sent a letter to the old lady, asking her to be kind to the old lady and send my daughter and son over to both families. ”
"In the future, the slave and maid's family will have to rely on the young lady to take care of it, if there is anything inconsiderate about the children, you have to take care of it more."
"Mom!" Hu Qinghui was so surprised, she was so loyal to Zhang's mother that she was so moved that she hugged Zhang's mother's waist and choked up: "Wanwan will live up to you." ”
Zhang's mother reached out and stroked Hu Qinghui's smooth long hair, her eyes full of affection.
This is really not to blame Hu Qinghui's excited gaffe, you must know that Zhang's mother was the first person next to Mrs. Yun, her man died early, leaving a son and a daughter, and the old lady took care of her, the daughter withstood Zhang's mother's lack, and the son also let him follow the Yun family's general manager.
It can be said that Zhang's mother's children are now capable people, and there are not many people around Hu Qinghui who can use them, if they get their brothers and sisters, it will really solve a big problem.
Because there were still people in the house, Zhang's mother couldn't hold Hu Qinghui for too long, so she instructed Cuihuan, "If you don't go to the bath again, I'm afraid the water will be cold, so hurry up and wait for the young lady." ”
Hu Qinghui took advantage of the time when she came out of Zhang's mother's arms, quickly wiped her tears with her sleeve, and the disappointment she received from her sister-in-law during the day, helpless, was cured by Zhang's mother's selfless dedication at this time.
She smiled brightly at Zhang's mother, got up with Cuihuan's hand, and went to take a bath without mentioning it.
The next day, after seeing off Master Zhou and Zhu's mother's family, Grandma Hu sat alone on the kang in the west room, pondering for a long time.
Yesterday left a bad impression in front of the Lan family's mother and daughter, but you can't just mess around, you have to make amends.
When she didn't get married before, her mother always told her that it was not terrible to do something wrong, but she was afraid that if you made a mistake and didn't make it up, the result would be much worse than the mistake you made at the beginning.
Thinking of this, Grandma Hu's eyes were red again, when she married into the Hu family, she was married, and her parents were very happy.
Later, the mother-in-law really loved herself very much, never scolded harshly, and saw that she didn't care about mundane things, so she only let her take care of her husband and children.
I thought that I would live a happy life like this, but who knew that my mother-in-law was seriously ill and went early, and then my stepmother was a powerful and skillful person, young and young, but she crushed Grandma Hu to death.
It's not that she didn't think about resisting, but as soon as she made a move, Sister Qing fell ill for no reason, and after that, Grandma Hu didn't dare to move.
After years of years, I forgot all the things that my mother taught me at the beginning, "However, now that I think about it, it's not too late, right?" ”
Grandma Hu sighed and called out loud: "Lan Chun, open the cage and bring the jewelry box with Nanmu carved begonia flowers." ”
"Yes." Lan Chun stood by the wall, looking at her grandmother and sighing, she was worried, she took a long breath when she heard the order, and hurriedly went to the ear room of the bedroom to get something.
Opening the jewelry box, Grandma Hu picked and took out her favorite pair of earrings with red gold and ruby begonia flowers, and asked Lan Xiang to pick a small and delicate Nanmu box, and asked Lan Chun to send it to Hu Qinghui.
Lan Chun looked at the gemstone earrings in his master's hand, and felt distressed, "These gemstone earrings are seafood made for you by the third uncle, and you are reluctant to take them out and wear them on weekdays, why do you want to give them to the eldest lady?" ”
"She is the master who came back from Jiangnan, and her grandfather's family is poor and only has money left, what good things are there, but I want your good things?"
Grandma Hu carefully wiped the ruby with a silk scarf and said softly: "She is hers, and I will give it to me as a sister-in-law." ”
"Besides, Wanwan is very smart, very good at getting into trouble, and gets along well with the Lan family, listening to what she means, she can also talk to the Hou Shizi of Xuanping."
"Think about it, let's do business in Pingjing to make money, can we get less support from the Mu family?"
"A pair of ruby earrings will be sent out today, and tomorrow, we will be able to earn back ten pairs and hundreds of pairs."
Lan Chun smiled at this time, and praised again and again, "Grandma still has a lot of ideas and a lively mind, if it weren't for Mrs. She is too domineering, you may not be worse than her." ”
Grandma Hu was extremely useful when she heard this, glanced at Lan Chun, carefully straightened the earrings in the box, and said with a smile: "You are the most talkative, go, this errand will be given to you, I want to see, your eldest lady is happy by you, what good things will you reward?" ”
After setting a gift for her sister-in-law, Grandma Hu chose a pair of stranded shrimp whiskers inlaid beaded bracelets for Lan Jiayin, although they are silver, but the pink pearls that can be inlaid are rare, which is very suitable for young girls who keep filial piety, and it is perfect for Lan Jiayin to give them.
As for Mrs. Lan, there are more good things in this one, and the objects given by the Queen Mother are all worn on her body, even if she sends the best gold, silver and jade, I am afraid that that one is not rare.
After thinking about it, Grandma Hu simply embroidered herself, a pair of pillowcases of butterflies and peonies, and honored her old man, hoping that she embroidered it by herself, and it took three months to make the object to please Mrs. Lan.
On Lan Jiayin's side, she asked Lan Xiang to go in person, but as for Mrs. Lan, she took her children to go in person.
Lan Chun watched her grandmother get into the sedan chair, and then she happily held the Nanmu box in her hand and went to Hu Qinghui's yard.
From a distance, he saw a small green cloth sedan chair parked at the door of Banlian Xuan, Lan Chun couldn't help but secretly wonder, "It's so early, I haven't eaten breakfast yet, who will come to visit the eldest lady?" ”
As soon as I entered the door, I saw the bell from a distance and said to Hong'er with a smile, "Okay, then I'm not welcome, I'll skip your yard's breakfast this morning." ”
These two little girls are about the same age, and they are both little girls that Miss likes to pamper, so they get along well on weekdays, and the two will hold hands and happily enter the pantry.
Lan Chun said secretly: "It turned out to be Miss Lan Wu, this is their home, and it is not a matter if they come early and go late." ”
"It's just that poor Lanxiang is going to run for nothing." I didn't feel a little joy in my heart.
The reason why Lan Jiayin came to Banlian Xuan early today was because of the Lan family's banquet a few days later.
Seeing that the day of his own banquet is getting closer and closer day by day, but yesterday because of Hu Zhixing's husband and wife, he was delayed for another day, don't you have to hurry up now?
"Yo, Sister Lanchun is here." Cuihuan, who was walking from the pantry to the main house with a tray, saw the henchman next to the grandmother in person, and hurriedly greeted with a smile, "Qin'er, what are you doing in a daze?" Why don't you lift the curtain for Sister Lanchun, she will reward you with candy. ”
Qin'er is only ten years old, and she was about to give Lan Chun a gift just now, but she was delayed by Cuihuan's arrival. ”
The little girl was already a good snack, but at this moment, she raised the purple bamboo curtain high and shouted happily: "Sister Lanchun is good." ”
Lan Chun glared at Cuihuan, took a few steps up the steps, and lightly touched Qin'er's forehead, "Silly boy, what about your sister Cuihuan teasing you, the curtain has been held for so long, isn't your hand sore?" ”
On the other hand, he grabbed a few big coins from his purse and stuffed them into Qin'er, "There is no sugar, but my sister gives you money, you can buy candy yourself." ”
"Hehe, thank you Sister Lanchun, thank you Sister Cuihuan." Qin'er didn't mind having sore hands, so she happily put the money in her arms, thinking, "The merchant in the alley behind me is here in the afternoon, what good things can I buy?" ”
Lan Chun followed Cuihuan into the door, and listened to the laughter in the Xinuan Pavilion.
"Yo, it's so lively." She chuckled and said, "The relationship between our young lady and Fifth Miss is really good. ”
"The two of them have a very different relationship." Cuihuan added the boiling water he had just taken to the white porcelain kettle, held the kettle on a tray, and said with a smile: "If you want to talk about liveliness, the house will be really lively in two days." ”
"I heard that there are many new tricks to play, and there will be a lot of people to help in the back garden, if you don't want to be left behind, hurry up and tell your grandmother to go to Mother Hu to register for a name."
Seeing that the western time was close in front of him, Lan Chun lifted the curtain of lightly embroidered flowers and whispered thanks, "Thank you." I have already made up my mind to join in the fun.
"The maid has seen the eldest lady, and she has seen Miss Lan Wu." Lan Chun bent his knees and greeted the two masters who were sitting on the kang facing each other.
One of these two people sat upright and held a pen, and the other was lying on the desk and looking at it with a smile, and looked at it at the same time.
Hu Qinghui put the pen on the pen holder and said softly: "So early, why didn't you serve your grandmother and come to me?"
Lan Chun smiled and took the Nanmu box from the hand of the little girl behind him, and offered it with both hands, "Miss, this morning, my grandmother packed up the box cage, and happened to see this pair of red treasure earrings, so she sighed at that time, 'It's a pity that such a good object is left here to eat ashes, you have to take it to your eldest lady to wear it.'" 'No, the son of a maid will send it to you quickly.' ”
Lan Jiayin naturally likes people with sharp mouths, and said with a smile, "Wanwan, open it up and take a look, what kind of great thing is it?" ”
Hu Qinghui smiled, raised his hand to open the delicate and small Nanmu box in his hand, the objects contained in it are very beautiful and chic, rubies are made of begonia flowers, gold threads are hollow on the gems, and gold tassels are decorated underneath.
Lan Jiayin stretched out her hand to take a closer look, and couldn't help but sigh, "I don't know how beautiful a foreign woman is, just looking at the jewelry over there, I always feel bold and unrestrained, gorgeous and flamboyant, and the graceful and subtle on our side, it is really two different styles." ”
"You can't deny it's beautiful, though, can you?"
Hu Qinghui nodded and agreed: "Indeed, although the customs and habits of various places are very different, there is one thing that is the same, that is, the love of beauty. ”
"Actually, I personally think that it would be more perfect if I could combine the styles of the two sides."
Lan Jiayin's attention to jewelry is much lower than in her previous life, and she just smiled when she heard it, and she didn't comment more.
Hu Qinghui looked at this pair of valuable earrings, and knew in her heart that her sister-in-law was from a noble background, and her parents favored their sons, thinking that their daughters were married, and the water that was spilled out, except for a slightly eye-catching dowry, her mother's family rarely made up for it on weekdays.
If it weren't for the sister-in-law's third brother, who was brought up by her since she was a child, she had a lot of affection for her, not only helping her take care of the dowry shop in private, but also always stealing some rare objects to come over, and the sister-in-law's life would be even more difficult.
Hu Qinghui has seen this pair of ruby earrings twice, once when she returned to Beijing from Jiangnan, she had a small banquet at home. One time was when my father celebrated his birthday, and he welcomed the guests.
Both times were formal occasions, and it can be seen that the sister-in-law still likes this pair of earrings very much, but she will send them over generously, "It can be seen that what the sister-in-law asked for this time is not shallow." ”
She was quite emotional in her heart, looked at Lan Jiayin on the opposite side and smiled slightly, and ordered: "Cui Yu, go find out the box of silver jewelry, and look for the hairpin to appreciate Lan Chun." ”
Cui Yu bent her knees and said 'yes', turned around and went back to the bedroom to choose the right silver hairpin.
She knows that her own lady, this is to appreciate the meaning of Lan Chun, this box of silver jewelry, is not an ordinary color, but Jiangnan Fei Ruyi's craftsmanship, only sent from Jiangnan to Beijing a few years ago, it is said to be the most fashionable pattern in Jiangnan.
(To be continued.) )